An analytical study of some variables related to farmer's empathy in an Egyptian village.
Abstract: This study aimed to investigate the relationship between degree of farmer's Empathy, as a dependent variable, and some independent variables. Simple correlation analysis revealed that the farmer's years of education, land holdings, mass media exposure, cosmopoliteness, aspirations, opinion leadership, formal social participation agricultural innovativeness, and fatalism, were siginificantly associated with degree of farmer's empathy. Simple correlation coefficients between the dependent variable and the respondent's age, number of children, number of occupations, and contact with agricultural change agent, were found to be not significant.
Multiple correlation and regression analysis revealed that only three independent variables namely, opinion leadership, fatalism and formal social participation, were significantly associated with degree of interviewee's empathy. These three independent variables were jointly contributing toward 41.6 percent of predictability of empathy. Also it showed that the two independent variables namely, opinion leadership and fatalism, were jointly contributing to 35.05% of the total variation of empathy. Opinion leadership was contributing to 25.6 % of the predictability of empathy.
Publication year 1989
Pages 19
Availability location Agricultural Extension And Rural Development Research Institute Library – agricultural Research Center – 8, Cairo University St., - Egypt
Availability number 141
Organization Name
City Giza
serial title Bulletin of Agricultural research and Rural development research institute
Department Extension Organization and Training Research Department
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Extension
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Human behaviour.
Publication Type Journal
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